I found a pro-solar energy web site that claims:
"Covering 9% of Nevada with parabolic trough systems could generate enough
electrical power for the whole of the USA."
http://www.power-technology.com/projects/sanfrancisco/ See final paragraph.

Nevada is a bit over 110,000 square miles in size. This would make it around
10,000 square miles of land to power the US.

Paul Hutch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Bob Axtell
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 10:05 AM
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [EE]: solar farm on 10 / 100 square miles
>
>
> Yep.
>
> Cedric Chang wrote:
> > So you are saying 10 miles square, which is 100 square miles ?
> > cc
> >
> >
> >> On Mar 16, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Bob Axtell wrote:
> >>
> >> Cedric Chang wrote:
> >>
> >>> Someone said they had a link to a proposal to use 10 or 100 square
> >>> miles of sunny desert land to make hydrogen and oxygen from water and
> >>> solar energy.  Can anyone direct me to this proposed solar farm ?
> >>>
> >>> I want to run the numbers on acquiring land down south ( USA ) and
> >>> what the technology costs would be.
> >>>
> >>> cc
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